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Title: Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Acme publishing and engraving co. (New York)
Subjects: New York (N.Y.). Acme publishing and engraving company
Publisher: New York : ACME publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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lines of what may be termed the historicalbackbone of the boroughs life. In 1684 a settlement at Danbury called Pahqmoqin by the Indians, or Paq-raagc in the colony records, was commenced. The pioneer settlers were Thomas Taylor, Francis Bushnell,Thomas Barnum, and others, who were mostly from Norwalk. Dr. Wood and Josiah Starr came from LongIsland, and Joseph Mygatt soon after from Uartford; and men of the name of Pickett, Knapp, and Wildinanwere among the earliest settlers, of whose names tlicre arc a number still common in tlie town. Tlic settlement D A N B U R Y. 89 was called Daiilmrv, from a village in Essex, Eiiglaiul, and it was laid out six miles squait:. The town patentfrom the Geneial Court was given in 1T02, and it was made a borough in 1822. The Rev. Seth Shove, proba-bly ordained in 1606, was the first minister. Hats were first manufaetured in Danbury in 1V80 by ZadocBenedict, who with one journeyman and two apprentices made about three in a day. In 1T90 Messrs. Burr it
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90 DANBURY. White built the first hat factory in the town, employing thirty hands, and producing fifteen dozen a week.There were produced in 1800, at this place, 20,000, fur hats mostly, surpassing any other town in the UnitedStates in the annual manufacture. Such are a few of the facts relating to the Danbury of the past; andalthough, historically speaking, they are for obvious reasons partial and incomplete, they none the less prove bycontrast with the present that the towns rise from comparative obscurity has been little short of phenomenal,and in the highest degree creditable to the promoters of her enterprises. The Danbury of to-day is, in short,an important manufacturing town, as well as a prominent commercial centre for a wide area of country, andupon the maintenance and extension of manufacturing interests the future prosperity of the place greatlydepends. This is all-important to the man who is looking about him with the intention of changing his loca-

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